Chapter Two - Enchanted Forest Pt. 3

The scroll you find next isn't just any scroll. It's called the Focus Scroll, and it will open up a new way for Gabriel to earn essence to build up his Light Magic. To grab it, move forward from the location of the previous scroll, where you'll find a man-made wall with a whip hook at the top of it. Hook your whip onto said hook and work your way upward. Bash through the stone window there (like you did on an earlier stage) to reach the next area. Examine the dead body blatantly sitting in the middle of this sealed-off location, and voila! You'll have yourself the Focus Scroll, which you will learn to use to its fullest extent in the next series of battles.

The game will first throw a Warg your way, instructing you to hit it with successive strikes to build up the meter on the bottom of the screen. Once you build up the meter (which is done by successfully striking without being hit yourself), attacks with the meter full will result in Light Magic essence being dropped with each of the next hits. You can continue the trend against the Goblins that attack once the Warg has been felled. Keep in mind that the Goblins will spawn endlessly until you use two of their grenades against the gigantic rock barrier at the top of the screen. Once that's shattered, the Goblins will stop spawning, and you can move forward into the next area.

Ancillary Goblins, as well as a few Lesser Lycanthropes, will be the very last enemies you have to contend with as you move into the next area. Once they're felled, you can concentrate on ending this mission posthaste (but be sure to read the subsequent paragraph, which will explain how to get the mission's final scroll before progressing to the next mission). Wrap around the gigantic tree trunk in the center of this area, running left around it in a clockwise fashion. You should find the crumbling wall of a tower on the far end of the tree trunk. Climb up on to the hand-holds there, and then use your whip to reach the book high above you. Rappel up the wall and then use another hook to swing to an isolated cliff. You can then turn around and use the hook on a tree to reach the top of the tree trunk, which is actually the hidden entrance to a cave. That should be the end of the mission!

If you're interested in quickly grabbing a scroll before working your way into the tree trunk, simply do the following. Once the final Goblins and Lesser Lycanthropes have been slain, run around the gigantic tree trunk to the right, in a counterclockwise direction. Doing so will lead to the far side of the aforementioned tower wall. You can't progress from here, but you will find a dead body sitting on the ground. Examine it to find this scroll before executing the mission's endgame.

This mission's trial is easy to complete, but you're going to need to sit tight and work hard to complete it. The idea here is to kill thirty Goblins with the grenades that they throw at you. This is easy to do, in premise, at the end of the mission, where you have to use a couple Goblin grenades to destroy a rock barrier. Instead of chucking their grenades at the barrier, simply chuck them back at them. You'll need to be careful to aim here, though, because if you send two grenades flying at the rock barrier instead of at your enemies, the barrier will fall, and Goblins will stop spawning. You've been warned! (We've been getting a lot of e-mail about this particular trial. If you want an easier way to complete it, try grabbing a Goblin with a grenade in-hand. You can actually ignite and detonate their grenades in a quicktime sequence in this way, which is actually a lot easier and a lot more streamlined than our first recommendation. Consider doing this instead if you're having issues.)